# The Forum for South Africa is calling for the immediate stabilisation of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme operations and greater transparency in its governance. The 54.3-billion-rand scheme is under increased scrutiny, as it still needs to address funding issues in ten-thousand cases, with over four-thousand students awaiting resolution. Forum leader Tebogo Mashilompane says […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa’s membership of the Southern African Development Community is about job creation and improving citizen’s quality of life. The country is hosting the 46th Sadec summit in Durban this week. In his weekly newsletter, Ramaphosa says no country in the region can on its own build an integrated power […]
# Die Truth and Solidarity-beweging sê Suid-Afrika se waterkrisis mag nooit ‘n geleentheid vir politieke partye word om in die aanloop tot ‘n verkiesing verontwaardiging te skep, maar die mense te vergeet sodra die stemme getel is nie. Dit kom nadat die Parlement se portefeuljekomitee oor Water en Sanitasie verlede week sy landwye openbare verhore […]
# The Truth and Solidarity Movement says South Africa’s water crisis must never become another opportunity for political parties to manufacture outrage during election season, and then forget the people once the votes have been counted. This comes as Parliament’s portfolio committee on Water and Sanitation kicked off its nationwide public hearings on the Water […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Kommunisteparty sê sy verkiesingsmanifes plaas mense eerste, veral werkers en armes wat die grootste deel van die samelewing uitmaak. Die party gaan onafhanklik aan die munisipale verkiesing in November deelneem. Die manifes plaas klem op betroubare openbare dienste, ordentlike werk, grond en behuising, voedselsekerheid, veiliger gemeenskappe, die stryd teen tenderkorrupsie en groter […]
# ActionSA se leier, Herman Mashaba, sê Suid-Afrika moet ophou om funksies uit te kontrakteer wat die regering self kan verrig. Hy wil weet waarom munisipaliteite tussengangers betaal om mense aan te stel om vullis te verwyder, openbare geriewe skoon te maak, infrastruktuur te onderhou en veiligheid te voorsien. ActionSA se woordvoerder, Omogolo Taunyane, sê […]
# The South African Communist Party says its election manifesto puts people first, particularly the workers and poor who constitute the majority of society. The party will be contesting the November local government elections independently. The manifesto places reliable public services at the centre of its municipal programme, alongside decent work, land and housing, food […]
# Die DA het weer gevra dat gereelde, geloofwaardige en omvattende leefstyloudits in die Polisiediens uitgevoer word. In die vorige boekjaar is 72 gevalle vir leefstyloudits verwys. Ses is vir verdere ondersoek verwys terwyl 30 nog aan die gang is. Woordvoerder Lisa Schickerling sê desondanks is geen enkele lid nog aan tugoptrede onderwerp nie en […]
# Die parlementêre ad hoc-komitee wat bewerings van politieke inmengery, korrupsie en misdadigheid in die strafregstelsel ondersoek, oorweeg vandag sy voorlopige verslag. Die komitee het maande lank na getuienis geluister ná bewerings deur KwaZulu-Natal se polisiekommissaris, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. Sedert getuienis in Maart afgehandel is, het die komitee daaraan gewerk om bewyse wat voorgelê is in […]
